Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H977: בָּחַר (bâchar) Definition

Strong's number
H977
Lemma
בָּחַר
Transliteration
bâchar
Pronunciation
baw-khar'
Strong's definition
properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require. a primitive root;

163 instances of the word בָּחַר bâchar (H977)


  • Proverbs 8:10 - Receive my instruction and not silver and knowledge gold rather than choice

  • Proverbs 8:19 - is better My fruit than gold yea than fine gold and my revenue silver than choice

  • Proverbs 10:20 - silver is as choice The tongue of the just the heart of the wicked is little worth

  • Proverbs 16:16 - and to get wisdom How much better than gold and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver

  • Proverbs 21:3 - To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice

  • Proverbs 22:1 - is rather to be chosen A good name riches than great rather than silver and gold favour and loving

  • Psalms 25:12 - What man is he that feareth the LORD him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose

  • Psalms 33:12 - Blessed is the nation is the LORD whose God and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance

  • Psalms 47:4 - He shall choose our inheritance for us the excellency of Jacob whom he loved Selah

  • Psalms 65:4 - Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house even of thy holy temple

  • Psalms 78:67 - Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph not the tribe of Ephraim and chose

  • Psalms 78:68 - But chose the tribe of Judah the mount Zion which he loved

  • Psalms 78:70 - He chose David also his servant and took him from the sheepfolds

  • Psalms 84:10 - is better For a day in thy courts than a thousand I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness

  • Psalms 105:26 - He sent Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen

  • Psalms 119:30 - the way of truth I have chosen thy judgments have I laid

  • Psalms 119:173 - Let thine hand help thy precepts me for I have chosen

  • Psalms 132:13 - hath chosen For the LORD Zion he hath desired it for his habitation

  • Psalms 135:4 - Jacob hath chosen For the LORD unto himself and Israel for his peculiar treasure

  • Song of Solomon 5:15 - His legs are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold his countenance is as Lebanon excellent as the cedars